IIT Delhi develops Rapid Antigen Test Kit for COVID-19

June 26, 2021

Minister of State for Education, Shri Sanjay Dhotre, launched a Rapid Antigen Test kit for COVID-19. It was developed by IIT Delhi.

Rapid Antigen Test kit (RAT Kit)

RAT kit has been developed by IIT Delhi researchers led by Dr. Harpal Singh. He is a professor at Centre for Biomedical Engineering of IIT Delhi. kit has been developed entirely using internal resources at IIT Delhi. It has been named as SENSIT Rapid COVID-19 Ag Testing Kit. It exhibits 86% Sensitivity & 100% Specificity.

Salient features of RAT kit

kit is used for in vitro qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigen.
It is a colloidal gold enhanced double antibody which is sandwich immunoassay to perform qualitative determination of coronavirus antigen in human nasal swabs, throat swabs and deep sputum sample.
This kit is suitable for general population screening and diagnosis of COVID-19 infection.
This invention by IIT Delhi is directed towards an in vitro diagnostic kit for detection of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus antigens in nasopharyngeal swab.
It uses rapid immunochromatographic method.
Virus is identified on the basis of monoclonal antibodies which is specific for Coronavirus antigen.
Results obtained are qualitative based which can be inferred visually with naked eye.

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